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ersatj1e Comedian
13y Mair M. Morgan
CHAMPION COOKS USE ONLY
FINE INGREDIENTS
Flavor and Texture Most Important
in Prize Winning
Just now when fresh ripe fruit is
coming on the market, ambitious
cobks .axe making up their jars of
fruit • for winter use and for exhibi-
tions and contests. About half the
battle in really good cooking is in
knowing what the finished product
should be like — to recognize per-
fection,
Ch.atnpion cooks have found that
flavor and texture are most import-
ant. Iii judging jelly, for instance, 75
out of 100 is given for flavor and
texture. This flavor is, of course, the
zestful tang of the fresh, fully -ripe
fruit And jelly of perfect texture
holds its shape when turned out of
a glass. yet quivers when the plate
on which it rests, is moved.
' Many cooks will produce a jelly
that sets, but which slumps with a
weary lurch when it is turned out of
the jar. An even greater number of
cooks never achieve a really flavor.
some jelly. Year after year they
boil under -ripe fruit and sugar for a
!long time to concentrate enough
pectin to get a jelly, and while
under -ripe fruit has more pectin
than the better quality ripened fruit,
it hasn't the fine flavtr of the ripe
product, and whatever flavor it has
deteriorates in the long cooking.
Of all the gorgeous Canadian
fruits of which much flavor is sacri-
ficed in jelly -making, red currants
top the list. This is because under -
ripe currants are used.
Modern .cooking methods haus
;eliminated that waste of fine red
ieurrant flavor by the addition of
pure fruit pectin to give a jelly of
perfect flavor and texture. Recipes
for use with concentrated liquid
pectin are simple and economical
and the first • rule is to follow them
accurately.
I-Iundreds of cooks have taken first
prize for both black and red currant
jelly made from the following re-
cipe:
Red or Black Currant Jelly
5 cups (21,1 lbs.) juice •
._ u
water. With red currants, crush
about.4 pounds fully ripe fruits'add"
1 cup water. To prepare juice, bring
mixture to a boil, cover, and simmer
10 minutes. Place fruit in jelly cloth
or bag and squeeze out juice.
Measure sugar and juice into large
saucepan and mix. Bring to a boil
over hottest fire and at once add
pectin, stirring constantly. Then.
'bring to a full rolling boil and boil
hard 1/'s minute. Remove from fire,
skim, pour quickly. Paraffin at once.
Makes 11 six -ounce jars.
HOUSEHOLD USES FOR SALT
At this time of the year garden-
ing is the favourite outdoor sport of
inany families. A little salt goes a
long way in the successful cultivat-
ion of a flower or vegetable garden.
tt does any garden good to give it
very light applications of salt, about
once ounce for every square yard.
buchvegetables as beets, asparagus
and .onions, and flowering plants
Such as sabbatia, grow better for a
pinch of salt.
SUMMER HODGE PODGE
Cut up a liberal supply of any
fruits and berries you have on hand,
anixing then: as you would for a
fruit cup or punch. Oranges, apples,
pineapples, grapes, cherries, peaches,
pears, plums, strawberries, rasp-
berries—all are good, and there
vhould be at least three or four
arieties used. Cook, place on crisp
Lettuce leaves, and just before serv-
inng, sprinkle liberally with a sauce
Consisting of two parts orange juice,
me part lemon juice, and as touch
sugar as can be dissolved in it with-
out thickening. This makes an ex-
cellent salad for a children's party,
for it contains nothing except the
foods children like, and is strongly
alkaline in its reaction.
SCALLOPED POTATOES
Into a well -buttered baking dish
put a layer of thinly sliced potatoes,
salt, pepper, and a thin scattering of
finely cut cheese and one-half the
thin white sauce (1 tablespoon flour,
1 tablespoon butter, to 1 cup milk).
Repeat and cover with buttered
crumbs. Bake in moderate oven about
an hour, until the white sauce bub -
les through and the potatoes are
well done and brown on top. If cheese
is omitted, add small pieces of but-
ter to each layer of potatoes. In
order to save time of making cream.
sauce, a small amount of dry flour
can be sprinkled over layers of
potato, and milk added to cover the
potatoes.
GARNISHED PLATTER
Cold boiled ham, French friend
potatoes, green peas and a slice of
tomato make an excellent platter for
supper. Place the tomato on a crisp
leaf of lettuce and surround it with
a trio of pickles—an onion, a piece
of cauliflower . and a small whole
cucumber—and .you will make the
platter far more attractive. Further-
more, you will have added to its
piquancy and to its food value.
TASTY MACARONI DISHES
Do you want something "different"
for the family—something that will
"just touch the spot" at the evening
meal? Then try one of these tasty,
healthful, easy -to -prepare macaroni
dishes. Either recipe is very easy to
follow, and the result is very easy to
enjoy:
Macaroni With Tomato Sauce
Break the macaroni into short
lengths. Cover with plenty of boiling
water and boil until soft, twenty to
thirty minutes generally being re-
quired. Stir occasionally with a fork
to prevent sticking to the kettle.
nd drain thnr
may e mix''d wtt t e tomato sauce.
Baked Macaroni With Cheese
2 cups •macaroni, broken into
short lengths
Y/s pound grated cheese
2 tablespoons butter
13f cups milk
Salt and pepper
Boil and drain the macaroni as
directed in the preceding recipe. Ar-
range a layer in the bottom of a pud-
ding -dish. Over it sprinkle some of
the cheese and scatter over this bits
of butter. Add a sprinkling of salt
and pepper. Fill the dish in this
order, having macaroni on top, wei1
oiled with butter, but without cheese.
Add milk enough to just cover well
and bake until a golden brown hue,
one-half hour usually being suf-
ficient. Serve in the dish in which it
was baked.
ASPARAGUS DISHES
Scrambled Eggs 'With Asparagus
Cut asparagus into one inch
lengths. Cook in salted water 15
minutes. For 3 cupfuls of asparagus
allow 4 eggs.
Melt 2 tablespoons butter in a
double boiler, add 1-8 teaspoon salt
and a little pepper and the well beat-
en eggs. Stir gently over boiling
water until eggs begin to thicken.
Add drained asparagus. Cook until
thickened but not dry. Serve hot on
toast. Serves 4.
Save water in which asparagus is
cooked to 'make:
Economy Soup
To one cup of asparagus liquid add
Ye cup cold trashed potatoes, and
cook together five minutes then rub
After being laughed at by the world at large, Harry Langdon, screen and stage comedian, is
having a little fun of his own' since putting his latent talent for caricature into play, Nancy Carroll
seems to be protesting against the chubby cheeks Langdon's brush attributes to her.
UNDAY
-`CHOO, ESSON
LESSON III
DAVID (THE GREAT HEARTED)
1 Samuel 26:5 -12; 2 Samuel 1.23-
27.
GOLDEN TEXT. — Not looking
each of you to his own things, but
each of you also to the things of
others. Phillippians 2:4.
THE LESSON IN ITS SETTING
TIME. — David was born in 1092
B.C., and died at the age of seventy,
in 1022 B.C. The passage in I> Samu'
el falls probably about 1068 B.C.,
B.C., when the time of Saul's death
was about 1063 B.C..
PLACE. — The life of David is
identified at various periods with a
great many places in Palestine. His
second sparing of Saul took place at
Hachilah, about 20 miles north of
Jerusalem. The report of Saul's
death comes to him while he is at the
city of Zizlag, the exact identifica-
tion of which is not known.
"And David arose." He was hiding
in the wilderness of Ziph. "And came.
to the place where Saul had decamp-
ed; and David beheld the place.
where Saul lay, and Abner the son of
Ner, the captain of his shots:" See
I Sam. 14:50, 51; 20:25; 2 Sam.
vs 2, 3. "And 'Saul lay within the
of the wagons, and the pee ale
ncamped round about; him.
` Then answered David andsax.
Ahitnelech the Hittite." Not mention-
ed elsewhere. Uriah was also a Hit -
tie. "And to Abishai the son of
Zeruiah, brother of Joab, saying."
The first mention of David's valiant
but hard-heartell nephews, the sons
of his sister Zeruiah, who play such
an important part in his history.
"Who will go down with me. to Saul
to the camp?" "And Abishai said, 1
will go down with thee."
"So David and Abishai came to the
people by night: and, behold, Saul
lay sleeping within the place of the
wagons, with his spear stuck in the
ground at his head." The spear serv-
ed as a sceptre, and was the symbol
of royalty. The king held it in his
hand when he sat in council (22:6),
or in his house (19:9); it was kept
by his side when he sat at table
(20:33); stuck in the ground by his
pillow as he slept in camp (26:7).—
A. F. Fitzpatrick. "And Abner and
the people lay round about him.
"Then said Abishai to David, God
'bath delivered up thine enemy into
thine hand this day: now therefore
'let me smite him, I pray thee, with
the spear to the earth at one sttwke,
and I will not smite him the second
time." A natural desire, on the part
of Abishai, ''in such ,a time of pur-
suit, and with the odds ss greatly in
favor' of Saul.
"And David said to Abishai, De-
stroy him not; for who can put forth
his' hand against Jehovah's anointed,
and be guiltless?" The divine provi-
dence thus gives David opportunity
not to slay his enemy, but rather to
conquer him by a new kindness.
"And, David said, As Jehovah
liveth, Jehovah will smite him." As
anointed Saul was God's property.
Therefore only God's hand could
tauch his life. "Or his day shall
come to die;" i.e., he may die a na-
tural death. "Or he shall go down in-
to battle, and perish."
hovah forbid that I should put
my • hand against Jehovah's;an-
d:" The grace we specially coin
nd is that of waiting for God's
tib e. Alas! into how many sins, and
even crimes, have men been betrayed
through . unwillingness to wait for
God's bine!
'So David took the spear and the
curse of water from Saul's head;
and then gat them away: and no
man saw it, nor knew it, neither did
any awake." A most vivid sentence.
"For they were all asleep, because a
deep ` sleep from Jehovah was fallen
upon them." • The word is used es-
pecially of supernaturally caused
sleep (e.g., Gen. 2:21, 15:12).
"Saul and Jonathan were lovely
and pleasant in their lives." Perhaps
rather, loving and kindly. The words
express the mutual affection which
existed between father and son.
"And in their death they were not
divided." What gentler veil could be
drawn over the horrors of their
bloody death and mutilated bodies
than in these tender words? "They
were swifter than eagles" Cf. Jer.
4:13; Hab. 1:8. "They were stronger
than lions." Cf. 17:10; Judg. 14:18.
through a sieve. Melt one teaspoon
of butter in the saucepan, add one
teaspoonful of flour and blend well.
Add strained liquid ) Stir l until
smooth. Add one cup milk' and stir
until hot. This quantity serves four.
Asparagus Rarebit
This is an excellent method of us-
ing left over asparagus.
1 tablespoon butter
% cup Milk
1 tablespoon tomato catsup
2 cups cookeu asparagus cut in'
pieces
1 tablespoon flour
1 cup grated cheese
3k teaspoon salt
Melt butter in a double boiler. Add
flour. When blended add milk slow-
ly, stir until thickened — stirring
"Ye daughters of Israel, weep ov-
er Saul, who clothed ypu in scarlet
delicately." As the women took the
lead in public festivities on joyful oc-
casions, so it was they who remem-
bered the fallen when there 'was
n.curning. "Who put ornaments of
gold upon your apparel." This inci-
dental mention indicates how much
constantly; add cheese, catsup, salt, ,Saul's sucessful wars, so briefly el-
and asparagus. When cheese is melt- .hided to in the history of his reign
ed, serve on toast squares. Serves, (IsS'aiii. 14:47), had enriched the na-
four, tion.
"How are the mighty fallen in the
midst of the battle!" (Ps. 42:5, 11;
43:6; 107:8, 15, 21, 31). "Jonathan is
slain upon thy high places." The hero
of -a hundred fights, slain at last in
those mountain strongholds of his
country which he had once won and
defended so successfully (1 Sam,
14).
"I am distressed for thee, my
brother Jonathan, very pleasant bast
thou been unto me: thy love to me
was wonderful, passing the love of
women." This may be supposed to
include both the love of the bride
for her husband and the love of the
mother .for her son. They that love
one another perfectly are made one
soul by their disposition of mind.
"How are the mighty fallen, and
the weapons of war perished!" The
weapons of war axe the heroes of
war considered as instruments of
battle. Not only is there in David's
lament no revengeful feeling at the
death of his persecutor ... but he
dwells with unmixed love on the
brighter recollections of the departed.
It's Smart !
Today's pattern will provide a
basis for many variations. First,
there's the original plan—pink
linen with coral trim and coral
jacket.
Should you desire something
very summery and dainty, then
make the dress and jacket of some
sheer cotton print.
Again the dress is jaunty with-
out the jacket carried out in
plaided gingham, checked seer-
sucker, striped shirting cotton,
etc.
Style Np. 8056 is designed for
sizes 14, 16, 18 years, 86, 88 and
40 -inches bust. • Size 16 requires
3 yards of 89 -inch material with
%a, yard of 35 -inch contrasting for '
dress; and 11/2, yards .of 39 -inch
malarial for jacket.
FRIENDLY ENEMIES
The terrible capacity for destructs)
iveness which the white ant possess;
es was recently again illustrated aU �
Darwin, Northern. Australia, Short
circuits had constantly severed the.
telephone service, and it was found)
that white ants had eaten through;
cement, an inch thickness of earth'}}
enware, a thick coating of vaselined
and arsenic, a quarter -inch lead
cable, and the insulation of the tele-
phone wires!
Yet in Burma this very destruct-
iveness is turned to .account. Sandal-
wood is one of the country's most
precious assets, but the hard and
fragrant heart wood alone has value.
As the tree grows, the valuable
heart is overlaid by a soft and worth-
less layer, forming eventually two-
thirds of the trunk:
It is here the the white ant comes
to man's aid. When the tree is fell-
ed and cut into lengths it is allowed
to lie, and at once the ants 'get busy
on the soft wood, which is sappy and
sweet enough to attract them first.
In a few weeks they deliver the
heart free of all the worthless sap
wood.
Soliloquay of a Civil
Servant
John Macomish in the New States-
man and Nation (London)
Seven years have I, seven years
have I sat
Have snnk my roots and gloried and
grown fat
Weaving the Governmental ara-
besque
At this desk, this my square and
basic desk.
I have ravelled out here with my'
dexterous hands
The touch rebellion of entangled:
strands;
And the strands fall in line and in
tertwine,
All cross -connected, regulated, fine. •
Words, words my instruments what)
can I not do,
Deft scalpels, tweezers, what not:
do with you?
Seven years have taught my der )
terous hands to soothe
Your aimless rout, and chisel you:,
skin -smooth;
You are my
constables
My; sertsli„tede.
controlling supple]
sstc'les my spiky
My nimble penetrative X --rays)
,.'een ' , , ?
Between the,iu,:g atoms of the)
world;
Or you are troops mobolized at this)
my base;
Or you are balloons I float off into
space.
Fine liveried heralds whose lungs
I inflate
With the breath of a Secretary of
State.
I tilt my chair back and admire)
the sight.
I will not topple down, I am strap-)
ped in tight.
The pattern will not topple down,,
this fine
Intricate elegant safe pattern, ofi
mine.
Duchess Of York
Makes Her First
Airplane Flight
London. — The Duchess of York
made her first airplane flight recently
when with the Duke she took off
for Brussels in a commercial plane
from Hendon Airdrome.
The Duke and Duchess of York
flew to attend ,the Belgian Inter-
national Exhibition as guests of the
King and Queen at the Belgians. A
squadron of air force fighting planes
escorted the royal ship across the
channel.
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FU
MANCHU
By Sax Rohmer
r A sibilant breath from
Smith tolb me that he, fr"'om'
his post, could see the cause
of the shadow, which became
stationery.', It was the deceit,
who operated +he Zaya•} Kiss.
He was studying the i„erior
of the room'..
THE ZYAT KISS—The Man at the Window
Now +he figure at the window east a shadow on the
floor in the form of a man. The moment for which Nay-
land Smith and I waited had come;:. I was icy cold, ex-
pecfant, prepared for whatever horror might bo upon
p 1491 9 Snx a*hMcr aqp Tho Xlarylvito. to Mo.
ss. w iai i ls&,
ere was absolutely no sound at the window, but the
form of a man clung +here in the moonlight. A yel-
ace was pressed against the panes•
. .
Thin hands raised the sash. One hand disappeared,
end reappeared in a moment grasping 4 anvil, square
box.,.
There was a very faint cl' k .
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